Mark Freiburger

• Graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2005. ==Film work==

• Writer/Director of the feature film Between Borders, set for late January 2025 release in theaters nationwide. • Co-Writer of the upcoming feature film Arise produced by Sycamore Pictures and Third Coast Content. • Writer of Birches UK based feature. Based on the novel 'Silver Birches' (published in 2009 by Adrian Plass), was turned into a film starring Natasha Little, Anna Acton and Todd Carty. • Shadowed Michael Bay in an apprenticeship program on Transformers: Age of Extinction. • Wrote and produced The Trial, starring Matthew Modine, Bob Gunton and Robert Forster. Released by 20th Century Fox. • Directed and produced Dog Days of Summer. Feature directorial debut. Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ==Commercial work==

• Winner of the 2013 Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest. His commercial Fashionista Daddy made for a mere $300 beat out thousands of other entries, aired during Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013, and was the #1 ranked :30 commercial of the Super Bowl on the USA Today Ad Meter. It landed him a mentorship under director Michael Bay on Transformers: Age of Extinction starring Mark Wahlberg. • On January 29, 2014, it was announced during a live broadcast on CBS that his Doritos commercial was ranked the Greatest Super Bowl Commercial of All Time on a countdown of the top 10 commercials in Super Bowl history. • Directed 2 commercials for Join.Me in 2016–2017. • Directed a PSA featuring Jamie Lee Curtis for The Clare Foundation in 2016. • Directed an IKEA commercial in South Korea for Spring/Summer 2017 campaign. • Directed a campaign of national broadcast commercials for Samaritan's Feet in 2017–2018. • Directed a Microsoft branded film in 2019. • Directed commercials for Reebok, Fara Coffee, Becker Vineyards, Rodney Vineyards, Accenture and Shiner Bock in 2020–2021. ==Television work==

• Directed the Cooper & Joey digital pilot for Nickelodeon. • Directed sketch comedy digital shorts for DreamWorksTV. • Producer on the 2021 Emmy-Award nominated PBS series Downing of the Flag. ==Theatre work==

• Directed 110 Stories at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse in 2010, which starred Academy Award nominee John Hawkes, Katharine McPhee, Ed Asner, Diane Venora, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Michael Welch, Nicholas Turturro, Michael Beach and Sharon Lawrence. ==Other work==

• Directed Season 1 of the narrative podcast series BLACKWOOD, produced by Wondery. Released in October 2018. ==References==